#129 - A Blast of Sion Sono

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We discuss the extremely prolific career of the Japanese writer/director of the J-Horror classic SUICIDE CLUB, the insane 4-HOUR roller coaster LOVE EXPOSURE, and the conflicted ANTIPORNO. BREAKING NEWS: The feature film Justin wrote and directed, IMPOSSIBLE HORROR, will be playing as part of the SCARY MOVIES festival on August 19th in NEW YORK CITY at the Film Society of Lincoln Centre. Get your tickets now! https://www.filmlinc.org/films/impossible-horror/ On this week's Patreon episodes, we discuss Grey Market Viral VHS tapes. WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening
0:08.9	to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to be talking about Shion Sono, the director
0:14.8	of such classics as Suicide Club, love exposure, and seemingly a hundred other films.
0:25.0	I hope they serve beer in hell nope you're thinking of why don't you play in hell wait so this is not the tucker max episode oh no it's not
0:30.7	damn it a week of immersive tucker max research thrown down the drain and that will be the last time time Tucker Max will ever be mentioned in pop culture for the rest of time.
0:42.0	No, we're talking about Shian Sono, a Japanese director who at this moment is probably the most prolific, popular Japanese director.
0:52.5	The new Takashi Mika.
0:54.0	Is that fair to say? For all intents and purposes. Takashi Miki. Is that fair to say?
0:54.8	For all intents and purposes.
0:56.4	Takashi Miqui in the early 2000s was the guy that you thought about when you mentioned
1:01.5	like extreme Japanese cinema.
1:03.5	Like, oh my God, can you believe how crazy Itchy the Killer is?
1:07.3	Or dead or alive or visitor queue or audition?
1:13.3	And also somebody, you know, Miquet is like he's made a hundred movies and and maybe five of them won't be so great but then but then one will come
1:17.6	along and it's incredible and then and i think that right from the get go the big difference between
1:22.1	chian sono and takashi mike is that miki was always a guy that was happy to do whatever. Like any script that came
1:30.4	his way, he just loves to shoot and make stuff. And Shian Sono, every one of his films, except for a few,
1:38.0	were written by him. So they come from a place of artistic need. Like, I need to make these movies. And a lot of them in the last few years
1:46.4	were actually old scripts he wrote when he was, like, in his 20s that he pulled out of a drawer
1:51.2	and decided to make, like, love and peace. And why don't you play in hell as well? Now, you, I think,
1:57.7	like Shianzano more than I do. I do, yes. What is it about him that you love?
2:02.8	I think that it's, like, his energy that really gets me and the fact that it's such a personal,
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